Water Lilies: The Clouds 1915 – 1926

Claude Monet. (French painter, 1840-1926) Founders of the Impressionism movement along with his friends Renoir, Sisley and Bazille.
This piece is reproduced from a section of Monet’s large murals, the The Nymphéas [Water Lilies] that occupied Monet for three decades from the late 1890s until his death in 1926, at the age of 86. The series was inspired by the water garden that he created at his Giverny estate in Normandy. The final panals are donated by Monet to the French State in 1922, and which have been on display at the Musée de l’Orangerie since 1927.